Re: [PATCH 2/3] drivers:input:ps2 Added sunxi A20 ps2 driver, changed makefile and Kconfig

Arnd Bergmann
2014-12-05T15:50:18Z

On Friday 05 December 2014 07:01:17 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> On December 5, 2014 2:33:11 AM PST, Arnd Bergmann <arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >On Thursday 04 December 2014 04:23:44 vishnupatekar wrote:
> >> +
> >> +struct sunxips2data {
> >> + int irq;
> >> + spinlock_t ps2_lock;
> >> + void __iomem *base_address; /* virt address of control registers*/
> >> + struct serio *serio; /* serio*/
> >> + struct device *dev;
> >> + struct clk *pclk;
> >> +};
> >
> >As this is dynamically allocated, better embed the serio member
> >directly to avoid allocating both separately.
>
> That would be wrong - serio is refcounted and it may outlive instance of sunxips2data you embedded it into.

Ok, I see. I guess in this case the use of devm_kzalloc for serio is a bug,
because that would lead to a double free upon module unload, right?

Arnd